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“Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.
“He who does not advance in perfection falls into imperfection. An unattended garden becomes full of weeds. Things do not remain the same by being left alone. White fences do not stay white; they gradually become gray and then black. There are no planes in the spiritual life. We go uphill or we go downhill. The moment we cease to row against the stream, the current carries us down river.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“The priest must not postpone this union with the Holy Spirit to a more convenient season (Acts 24:25). If he neglects growth, decay sets in. There comes a time when it is too late to repent, even to ask for a drop of water to ‘cool my tongue’ (Lk 16:24).”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“Neglect of watching, prayer and mortifications produces an inner weariness about being too close to the Lord.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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